So I'm playing 3B Saturday. Big dude hits a rocket in my direction. Takes a bad hop and drills me, not in the FACE, but in the chest. Left a bruise the size of a fist. Know what I didn't look like? This:

Moral of the story: Even 51 y/o weekend warriors can avoid getting hit in the face by a bad hop.

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/10/2014 4:13:00 PM (view original):So I'm playing 3B Saturday. Big dude hits a rocket in my direction. Takes a bad hop and drills me, not in the FACE, but in the chest. Left a bruise the size of a fist. Know what I didn't look like? This:

Moral of the story: Even 51 y/o weekend warriors can avoid getting hit in the face by a bad hop.

Softball or baseball?

I play third in both and baseball 3rd base is much, much more difficult.

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/10/2014 4:13:00 PM (view original):So I'm playing 3B Saturday. Big dude hits a rocket in my direction. Takes a bad hop and drills me, not in the FACE, but in the chest. Left a bruise the size of a fist. Know what I didn't look like? This:

Moral of the story: Even 51 y/o weekend warriors can avoid getting hit in the face by a bad hop.

So somehow you consider the fact that you got nailed by a bad hop that just happened not to be high enough to hit you in the face to be evidence that nobody should get hit by a bad hop? Man, your logic wouldn't get past your average 6-year-old. Try harder.

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/10/2014 4:13:00 PM (view original):So I'm playing 3B Saturday. Big dude hits a rocket in my direction. Takes a bad hop and drills me, not in the FACE, but in the chest. Left a bruise the size of a fist. Know what I didn't look like? This:

Moral of the story: Even 51 y/o weekend warriors can avoid getting hit in the face by a bad hop.

Softball or baseball?

I play third in both and baseball 3rd base is much, much more difficult.

Softball but are you sure that baseball is much, much more difficult?

I'd have to look it up but I think baseballs exit speed is somewhere around 100 MPH at the BL level. I think softballs can exceed 80 MPH. Standing 30+ feet closer to the batter seems to give one pretty much the same time to react.